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  • ADHD Workbook for Men
    Learn to thrive using these exercises tailored just for men with ADHD. ADHD and its symptoms can often make you question your ability to be strong, confident, and a good provider. This ADHD Workbook for Men can help you learn to appreciate your unique set of challenges and harness the power of managing your ADHD to make it work for...
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  • Addiction Is a Choice
    The author refutes the widely held idea that addiction is involuntary, genetically determined, or a physical or mental illness. He offers convincing arguments that Addiction Is a Choice is a decision made by someone in order to find meaning and purpose in life. He explains why public policies, based on the incorrect beliefs that addiction is a disease or involuntary...
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  • Adam Smith’s America
    The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets Originally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory...
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  • A Brief History of the Soul
    A Brief History of the Soul is a clear and concise history of the soul in Western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind. Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul. Addresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the...
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  • A Beginner's Guide to the Roots of Yoga
    ‘Crucial and timely’ – VEX KING SHORTLISTED FOR THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING AWARDS 2025 – BEST WELLBEING BOOK GOLD AWARD WINNER AT THE LIVING NOW AWARDS 2025 - EXERCISE, FITNESS AND YOGA BOOK Learn how to incorporate traditional yoga into your modern practice – and feel the benefits. Yoga in its authentic form is focused on inclusivity, inner work and...
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  • 5-Minute Daily Writing Prompts
    Become a better writer in 5 minutes a day. Writing regularly is the best way to boost your skills and stay inspired—and this book of creative writing prompts is here to help you out! Spark your creativity with 501 short, simple prompts that encourage you to imagine, create, and improve. 5-Minute Daily Writing Prompts offers: Just 5 minutes: The exercises...
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  • 365 Days of Kindness
    Filled with simple ideas and inspiring quotes, this little book will help you bring kindness and gratitude into your life 365 days of the year. An act of kindness can transform the lives of those around us - and it enriches our own experiences too. You might think that choosing kindness means carrying out grand gestures or spending large amounts...
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  • Schopenhauer: 'The World as Will and Representation': Volume 1
    First published in 1818, The World as Will and Representation contains Schopenhauer's entire philosophy, ranging through epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, to ethics, the meaning of life, and the philosophy of religion, in an attempt to account for the world in all its significant aspects. It gives a unique and influential account of...
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  • An Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations
    Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations is a classic of political science, built on the firm foundation of Morgenthau’s watertight reasoning skills. The central aim of reasoning is to construct a logical and persuasive argument that carefully organises and supports its conclusions – often around a central concept or scheme of argumentation. Morgenthau’s subject was international relations – the way in...
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  • Women in the Hebrew Bible
    Could you trust a woman named Delilah with a pair of scissors? Would you eat food offered by a curious Eve? Women in the Hebrew Bible presents a broad overview covering the place of women in the writings of the Old Testament. The essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite...
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  • Women in the Hebrew Bible
    Could you trust a woman named Delilah with a pair of scissors? Would you eat food offered by a curious Eve? Women in the Hebrew Bible presents a broad overview covering the place of women in the writings in the Old Testament. The essays examine attitudes toward women and their status in ancient Near Eastern societies, focusing on the Israelite...
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  • Tough Guys and True Believers
    Tough Guys and True Believers will be a guide for therapists and counsellors who work with authoritarian men, offering an understanding of these men and an empirically supported set of recommendations to work with them effectively. The first part of the book explores what an authoritarian male is and how he came to be that way. Robertson offers "snapshots" of...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Theism
    There are deep and pervasive disagreements today in universities and colleges, and popular culture in general, over the credibility and value of belief in God. This has given rise to an urgent need for a balanced, comprehensive, accessible resource book that can inform the public and scholarly debate over theism. While scholars with as diverse interests as Daniel Dennett, Terry...
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  • The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy
    This valuable reference work synthesises and elucidates traditional themes and issues in Islamic philosophy as well as prominent topics emerging from the last twenty years of scholarship. Written for a wide readership of students and scholars, The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy is unique in including coverage of both perennial philosophical issues in an Islamic context and also distinct concerns...
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  • Telling Stories
    First Published in 2002. We are living in a time of rapid and radical social change. Modes and categories inherited from the past no longer seem to fit the reality experienced by a new generation. New Accents is intended as a positive response to the initiative offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to encourage...
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  • Sovereign Lives
    For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through readings of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitization, refugees, the fragmentation of identities and the practices of development. When referencing the title,...
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  • Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents
    Psychotic Symptoms in Children and Adolescents demystifies the interviewing diagnostic process of psychosis in children and adolescents and provides a valuable resource for treatment. Psychotic symptoms have traditionally been rationalised and disregarded as products of the child’s imagination. There has been a professional reluctance to acknowledge that children could suffer from severe psychotic disorders akin to adult subjects, and that...
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  • Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders
    Personality Disorders and Eating Disorders explores and defines the multifaceted relationship between these two fields in a cogent synthesis of prevalence, aetiology, and treatment. The book brings together leading specialists in both fields, with a clinical focus on such topical issues as genetics, drug abuse, and childhood trauma—as they relate to each field and as they affect the relationship between...
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  • Maps of Meaning
    This text connects two worlds that do not often meet - that of neuropsychology and cognitive science with Freudian theory and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative. Peterson shows the reader that there is an empirical connection between what technologically sophisticated neuroscience tells us about the brain and behaviour, and what ritual, myths, and religious stories have long narrated. This...
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  • Impact Techniques for Therapists
    Impact Techniques for Therapists teaches the basic principles of Impact Therapy, first developed by Ed Jacobs in 1992. Drawing heavily on the work of Milton Erickson, this form of therapy uses a creative and interactive approach to counselling that involves all senses in the therapeutic process. These innovative, multisensory techniques incorporate therapist-client exchanges not only on verbal but also on...
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  • Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion
    In Imagination from Fantasy to Delusion, Lois Oppenheim illustrates the enhancement of self that creativity affords, exploring the relationship of imagination to the self as agent. The premise of this book is twofold: First, that the imaginary is real. Where it differs from what we commonly take to be reality is in structure and in form. The imaginary of art,...
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  • Families with Futures
    Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities. Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and processes through a positive prism. Concepts are brought to life through striking examples from everyday family life and cutting-edge scholarship. Throughout, families...
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  • Families with Futures
    Noted for its interdisciplinary approach to family studies, Families with Futures provides an engaging, contemporary look at the discipline's theories, methods, essential topics, and career opportunities. Featuring strong coverage of theories and methods, readers explore family concepts and processes through a positive prism. Concepts are brought to life through striking examples from everyday family life and cutting-edge scholarship. Throughout, families...
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  • Enjoy Your Symptom!
    Slavoj Žižek, dubbed by the Village Voice "the giant of Ljubljana", returns with a new edition of his seriously entertaining book on film, psychoanalysis, and life. His inimitable blend of philosophical and social theory, Lacanian analysis, and outrageous humour demonstrates how Hollywood movies can explain psychoanalysis—and vice versa. In Enjoy Your Symptom!, Žižek explores the intersection of cinema and psychoanalytic...
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  • Black Feminist Thought
    In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals and writers, both within the academy and without. Here, Collins provides an interpretive...
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  • African-American Perspectives and Philosophical Traditions
    This valuable collection comprises twelve essays divided into three sections: Philosophical traditions, the African-American tradition, and Racism, identity, and social life. The contributors include: K. Anthony Appiah, Kwasi Wiredu, Lucius Outlaw, Leonard Harris, Bernard Boxill, Frank M. Kirkland, Tommy L. Lott, Adrian M.S. Piper, Laurence Thomas, Michele M. Moody-Adams, Anita L. Allen, and Howard McGary. The introduction is by John...
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    The Law of the Sublime
    From the World's Master Anatomist of Power ‘Machiavelli has a new rival. And Sun Tzu had better watch his back’ – NEW YORK MAGAZINE ‘Compelling’ – FORBES We struggle today with the need to find more meaning in our lives. The Sublime lifts us out of ourselves and confronts us with the marvels of the world, connecting us to the...
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  • The Missing Peace
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    The Missing Peace
    Discover how to break free from uncertainty and emptiness so you can take hold of the peace you've been longing for. In The Missing Peace, join Tim Ross, bestselling author and host of the popular podcasts The Basement and Wide Open, as you explore how the peace Jesus left you can help regulate your body and emotions as you break...
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  • Into the Coven
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    Into the Coven
    Into the Coven is the perfect activity book for autumn, packed with magickal illustrations to colour in. From witch’s familiars like black cats and ravens to scenes from the apothecary with potions and herbs, this mystical colouring book is sure to keep you enchanted for hours. As you colour in, discover spells, history and folklore, and let your imagination run...
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  • Ignite
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    Ignite
    Ignite is perfect for fans of bestselling, smart-thinking non-fiction such as Thinking Fast and Slow and Atomic Habits. The expert author, who writes accessibly and engagingly, has written for the national press and will be fully engaged in the publicity-driven campaign.
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  • Cash Cow
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    Cash Cow
    ‘Captivating, mind-boggling and deeply disturbing’ – Maureen Freely ‘Humane, thoughtful and urgent — this book will make you think, make you laugh, make you cry, but also make you burn with rage’ – Dr Mary Wellesley A thought-provoking deep dive into the global fertility industry and the commodification of the maternal body Should surrogacy be a paid service, an altruistic...
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  • Burn the Haystack
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    Burn the Haystack
    It’s time for a feminist dating revolution! The eagerly awaited first book by the creator of the Burned Haystack Dating Method who’s transforming the dating world by helping you ditch the duds, preserve your peace, and find your needle. How do you find a needle in a haystack? You burn the haystack to the ground. Among Dr. Jennie Young’s legion...
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  • Wisdom to Live By
    Discover the transformative wisdom of Confucius in this elegantly curated edition that speaks deeply to the mind, heart, and spirit. Whether you are seeking personal growth, moral clarity, or simply a more grounded way of living, Wisdom to Live By brings ancient philosophy to modern life with unmatched relevance and grace. "When you see a good man, think of emulating...
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  • The Wealth of Nations
    A cornerstone of classical economics, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith remains one of the most influential works ever written on the nature of wealth, free markets, and productivity. First published in 1776, this groundbreaking book examines how nations build economic prosperity, emphasizing the role of self-interest, division of labour, and competition in shaping the modern world. A powerful...
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  • The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
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  • The Communist Manifesto
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, pivotal figures in political philosophy, co-authored The Communist Manifesto in 1848. Unveiling the complexities of societal structures, the book offers invaluable insights into class conflict and the quest for equality. This influential work challenges conventional wisdom and remains a cornerstone of political theory, making it a perfect pick for anyone seeking to understand the forces...
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  • The Child-Healthy Divorce
    A framework for child-centred divorce from acclaimed psychoanalyst and award-winning author, Erica Komisar. A good divorce is better than a bad marriage, but for children that doesn't make the split any easier. Legal decisions have emotional consequences. Well-meaning parents can become hostile, insecure, or jealous, and well-adjusted kids can grieve the loss of the family unit, rage at the pain...
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  • Tao Te Ching
    "If you correct your mind, the rest of your life will fall into place." From political advice and lessons on leading a balanced life to common practical wisdom and guidance on self-knowledge, humility, morality, and virtue, this book gives an insight into the fundamental principles that form the basis of Taoism, one of the three great philosophical and religious traditions...
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  • Shamanism
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    From a talented young anthropologist and contributor to the New Yorker comes a fascinating investigation into the spiritual practice of shamanism. What are the origins of shamanism and what is its future? Do shamans believe in their powers? What exactly is trance? What can we learn from indigenous healing practices? In this enlightening book, anthropologist Manvir Singh offers a new...
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  • Relativity: The Special And The General Theory
    Relativity: The Special and the General Theory is a groundbreaking scientific work written by Albert Einstein, one of the most renowned physicists of all time. Published in 1915, the book revolutionised our understanding of space, time, and gravity. Relativity remains a cornerstone of modern physics and a testament to Einstein's intellectual brilliance. Journey through the fabric of space, time, and...
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  • In Trees
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    A wondrous, curious journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai—can teach us to grow wise. In Trees is a wondrous, curious journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees—from the mightiest sequoia to the tiniest bonsai—can teach us to grow...
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  • I Can Do It® 2027 Calendar
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    I Can Do It® 2027 Calendar
    Welcome abundance, joy, strength, and more with daily affirmations from beloved self-help author Louise Hay in this 2027 edition of her inspirational I Can Do It calendar. It is time to shine like a star! Accept the gifts the Universe has in store for you and recognize the unlimited opportunities of every day with Louise Hay's I Can Do It...
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  • How to Win Friends and Influence People
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  • Greatest Greek Philosophers
    Explore the intellectual marvels of ancient Greece through the profound insights of its greatest philosophers. Seneca, the unyielding questioner of truths; Plato, the visionary founder of the Academy; and Aristotle, the polymath who shaped logic and ethics. This captivating journey unveils their timeless wisdom on ethics, politics, and the human condition. From the dialectic method to the pursuit of eudaimonia,...
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  • A F*cking 2027 Wall Calendar
    This calendar has months. It has days. And it has the occasional bullsh*t holiday. What more do you need to know? Time to get your sht together. It's a fcking 2027 wall calendar! Packed with hilarious profanity and lots of swearing stickers, this sarcastic and humorous adult wall calendar says it like it is while keeping you organized. Funny, practical,...
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  • 2027 She Believed She Could So She F*cking Did Planner
    Keep planning and f*cking persisting! Design a life you love and get your sht together with this fcking planner! Take charge of your life and become the organised bitch you've always dreamed of being with this 2027 She Believed She Could So She Fcking Did Planner! Packed with hilarious motivation, badass affirmations, and tons of sarcastic stickers, this purse-size engagement...
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  • What Is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?
    A masterful, nuanced, and novel examination of Nietzsche’s Zarathustra. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche’s most famous and most puzzling work, one in which he makes the greatest use of poetry to explore the questions posed by philosophy. But in order to understand the movement of this drama, we must first understand the character of its protagonist: we must ask, What...
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  • We the Patients
    Take control of your healthcare and understand the rights that protect you. In America, it’s hard enough to stay healthy, but it’s doubly brutal when your care and your outcome hinge on one question: “What insurance do you have?” Thirty years after surviving a rare brain tumor and earning, what People magazine coined, “the people’s voice in healthcare,” Stupid Cancer...
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  • Tracks in Chaos
    When political action is imperative, we can be tempted to look to philosophy for guiding principles. This project, however, historically has been doomed to fail. Throughout Tracks in Chaos, philosopher Raymond Geuss examines closely the consequences of this failure. In crisp and lucid prose, he ranges over topics that include political realism, reflection in politics, universalism, solidarity, our utopian aspirations,...
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  • The Tonality of Thought
    In a lecture given in 2023, Byung-Chul Han likened his thinking to music: like the Goldberg Variations, his books present variations on themes, though in his case the variations are articulated in the form of fundamental concepts. He also explained that his thinking is rooted in German Romanticism and Far Eastern thought: 'If I may compare my thinking with a...
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  • There Was No Revolution
    In her new book, There Was No Revolution, Catherine Malabou argues that the French Revolution existed in name only, not in reality. Privileges disappeared only on the surface, and the old forms of domination persisted in structuring everyday life. French citizens soon came to ask: "How is it that we are falling back into the same patterns of privilege and...
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  • The Power of Positive Habits
    Transform your life with proven habits that exponentially grow and unleash the best version of you In The Power of Positive Habits, 18x bestselling author and leadership coach Jon Gordon—who has spent over two decades transforming lives and teams through his work—delivers a game-changing collection of practical habits that demolish distractions, beat burnout, neutralise negativity, and conquer complacency. Drawing on...
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  • The Language Animal
    "We have been given a powerful and often uplifting vision of what it is to be truly human." -John Cottingham, The Tablet In seminal works ranging from Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create possible ways of being, individually and as a society. The Language Animal examines the foundation of this generative...
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  • Star Wars Psychology
    Explore the psychological depth of Star Wars characters and themes Why does the Skywalker family struggle with such profound dysfunction? What psychological forces drive characters toward the dark side? Now in its second edition, Star Wars Psychology: Dark Side of the Mind examines these questions through extensive and fascinating psychological analysis. Edited by Travis Langley, one of the most popular...
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  • Seeking Your Better Self
    A practical guide to ethical living during uncertain and unsettling times When life presents its wobbly moments and you find yourself asking "And now what?" you need more than abstract philosophy. Seeking Your Better Self offers a thought-provoking guide for personal moral reflection and growth. Drawing upon the challenges and choices of daily life, this accessible and action-oriented book helps...
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  • On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life
    A paradigm-shifting, original examination of Rousseau's final work, Rêveries. On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life presents Heinrich Meier's confrontation with Rousseau's Rêveries, the philosopher's most beautiful and daring work, as well as his last and least understood. Bringing to bear more than thirty years of study of Rousseau, Meier unfolds his stunningly original interpretation in two parts. The first...
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  • Doing Good
    Doing Good is a bold call for a new social contract in a world buckling under the weight of multiple crises – geopolitical tension, ecological collapse, technological disruption, growing inequality, and the slow erosion of liberal democracy. The promises of modernity, once rooted in the convergence of technoscientific progress and liberal capitalism, have failed to deliver widespread peace and prosperity....
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  • Counseling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice
    Explore evidence-based counselling theories to improve client outcomes across diverse populations Mental health practitioners must choose from numerous therapeutic approaches while serving diverse clients. Counselling and Psychotherapy Theories in Context and Practice: Skills, Strategies, and Techniques, Fourth Edition provides comprehensive coverage of major theories alongside practical guidance for ethical, culturally sensitive application. This resource connects theoretical knowledge with real-world practice,...
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  • Cosmic Connections
    A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year A major new work by Charles Taylor: the long-awaited follow-up to The Language Animal, exploring the Romantic poetics central to his theory of language. The Language Animal, Charles Taylor's 2016 account of human linguistic capacity, was a revelation, illuminating our most fundamental selves. But, as Taylor noted in that work, there...
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  • Commentary on Plotinus
    Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499) was the leading Platonic philosopher of the Renaissance and is generally recognised as the greatest authority on ancient Platonism before modern times. Among his greatest accomplishments as a scholar was his 1492 Latin translation of the complete works of Plotinus (204-270 CE), the founder of Neoplatonism. The 1492 edition also contained an immense commentary that remained for...
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  • Being Reasonable
    Reasonableness plays many roles in our lives. In Anglo-American law, it is the yardstick for a wide range of behaviour—the "reasonable-person standard" governs everything from contract enforcement to killing in self-defence. In politics, a state can maintain a liberal democracy only if its citizens are reasonable. In ordinary life, we hold each other accountable to reason, criticising as unreasonable bosses...
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  • Becoming the Teacher I Needed: Lessons in Radical Kindness and Resilience
    Rediscover your passion for teaching and build the resilience to thrive in today's challenging classroom Becoming the Teacher I Needed by Jere Chang (known as “Ms. Chang”) offers a candid roadmap for educators struggling with burnout, disillusionment, and the mounting pressures of modern teaching. Drawing from her two decades in both general and gifted education classrooms, along with her childhood...
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  • Yoga of Heart
    In Yoga of Heart, yoga instructor Mark Whitwell takes us back to the time when yoga was first developed and to the shamanic past of the Upanishads, when yoga was practiced as a means of acknowledging, enjoying and participating in the source of Life. Whitwell explores the deeper tantric dimensions of hatha yoga - how yoga's purpose is to link...
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  • When Pleasing You Is Killing Me
    Are you one who likes to keep the peace even when it comes at a high emotional price for yourself? Do your attempts to resolve differences with a controller leave you feeling wrung out and discouraged? Do you sense that your best traits (goodness, kindness, cooperation) somehow become a disadvantage with an overbearing counterpart? These questions and many more are...
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  • Walter Kaufmann
    The first complete account of the ideas and writings of a major figure in twentieth-century intellectual life, Walter Kaufmann (1921-1980) was a charismatic philosopher, critic, translator, and poet who fled Nazi Germany at the age of eighteen, emigrating alone to the United States. He was astonishingly prolific until his untimely death at age fifty-nine, writing some dozen major books, all...
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  • Unfolding Self
    This classic text on psychosynthesis counselling and psychotherapy is for individuals who want to challenge their clients and students to more fully use their creative and healing powers. Key concepts covered include essential being and motivation of the individual; Assagioli's psychological laws; the psychosynthesis model of human growth; and specific problems that psychosynthesis addresses in the various stages of human...
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  • Unflattening
    The primacy of words over images has deep roots in Western culture. But what if the two are inextricably linked, equal partners in meaning-making? Written and drawn entirely as comics, Unflattening is an experiment in visual thinking. Nick Sousanis defies conventional forms of scholarly discourse to offer readers both a stunning work of graphic art and a serious inquiry into...
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  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Signature Editions)
    Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal work of philosophical fiction, now freshly repackaged for the Union Square and Co. Signature Editions line. Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Nietzsche's masterpiece. It includes the German philosopher's famous discussion of the phrase 'God is dead' as well as his concept of the Superman. Nietzsche...
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  • Thinking Like a Mountain
    This book of readings, meditations, rituals and workshop notes, prepared on three continents, helps us remember that environmental defence is nothing less than "Self" defence. Including magnificent illustrations of Australia's rainforests, Thinking Like a Mountain provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment, inviting us to begin a process of "community therapy" in defence of Mother Earth. It...
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  • The Zen of Climbing
    Outstandingly good ... It may be the single most insightful book about climbing ever written. Paul Sagar, Climber, writer, thinker What do Zen masters, sixteenth-century Samurai, and the world's elite climbers have in common? They have perfected the art of awareness, of being in the moment, of trusting the process. Climbing is a sport of perception, and our successes and...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Welcome to our Philosophy & Psychology section, where profound questions meet insightful answers. If you’re curious about the nature of existence, the workings of the mind, or the foundations of human behavior, this collection offers a wide range of books to deepen your understanding.

Discover classic works from great philosophers, contemporary explorations of ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and engaging texts that bridge philosophy with modern psychology. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical underpinnings of human thought or the psychological theories that explain why we think, feel, and act the way we do, there’s something here for every inquiring mind.

From thought-provoking essays and groundbreaking studies to accessible introductions and comprehensive guides, our Philosophy & Psychology books invite you to explore new ideas and perspectives. Dive in and start your journey of self-discovery and reflection today.